Sylvia Hamilton

"Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community" in Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada

Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. Black Canadian Studies revolves around the agency of Black people as the subject of investigation. Their stories, their interpretations, their pride, their […]

"Stories from The Little Black School House" in Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity

"Searching for Portia White" in Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies … an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. - Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rain/Drizzle/Fog : Film and Television in Atlantic Canada is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. […]

"A Daughter's Journey" in Canadian Woman Studies /l es cahiers de la femme, 23 (2)

And I Alone Escaped to Tell You

The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story encompassing many waves of settlement and diverse circumstances from captives to ‘freedom runners’ who sailed north from the United States with hopes of establishing a new life. The poems in And I Alone Escaped to Tell You endeavour to give these historical events a […]